And there are the Stone Menhirs, which I discovered don't do anything at all but just sit there. There's another circle of traps where you have to lead enemies to move into them. The Rune of Fate can be placed over a huge range, but the enemies will only stand there until it explodes if they don't see you. I found three of the skills that have to be targeted with a crosshairs, and amount to setting traps. I *think* I heard it works with a bow, so the mastery may synergize well with Hunter skills. I was wondering if it works with a staff.

All the INT does is boost the elemental damage in the left click weapon skill tree, as far as I can see. The skills strongly imply it's meant for melee characters. That implies it should be a caster mastery, but it has no good spells in it. It also spreads your attribute points per point of mastery to +1 STR, +1 DEX, and +2 INT. I think their idea was that it would be a second mastery, and it needs to synergize with some other mastery. I'm trying to build a hammer and mace wielding, Thor-like character. I don't like to divide my points into a second mastery until I get finished developing the first, which usually takes most of Normal level. I can always combine it with my favorite, Dream, but that won't help me in Normal level. I've always handled the demons of Hades with Temporal Rift, so I'll have to play a long time before I'll know if Runemaster compares well. It starts its description with 'Take a few moments to place runes on the ground that.' If it takes more than a second to cast, it won't work as a panic button ability. For one thing, I don't know what the recharge is going to be on it, and also the casting time may be a problem. I think it's called 'Explosive Runes' or something like that. Where I'm not sure the Runemaster mastery is going to compare favorably is with its high-tier 'panic button' ability. The Runemaster version avoids that by not making you invisible during the charge. There is an annoyance with Phantom Strike as a charge skill in that it makes you invisible, and when it does that, the bosses start walking back to the center of their threat zone, and the Phantom Strike ability doesn't move fast enough to catch up with them. The right mouse charge attack is also superior, because it has a seven second recharge, whereas Phantom Strike/Dream Steal has a sixteen second recharge. It compares to Dream mastery.Д«asically I want a left mouse weapon attack tree, a right mouse charge attack, and a high-tier aoe panic button spell that stuns enemies.ДЇor Dream, that would be Psionic Touch/Burn on the left mouse, Phantom Strike/Dream Steal on the right mouse, and Distort Reality/Temporal Rift for the panic button spell.ДЇor the Runemaster equivalents (still learning their exact names) the left mouse attack tree seems vastly superior to Psionic Touch/Burn, with a lot more synergies that go all the way up the tiers.

Okay, so I started a new character to try this new Runemaster mastery. This is an amazing year for lovers of old games! In order to get a bit of connection between my two toons, in NWN:EE, I am playing a Cleric X/Fighter 1 of Lathander, using tower shield and longsword, which resembles my gladius and shield wielding Psionic Touch-Burn Seer for TQ. So, I am dividing my time between my new TQ character and my new NWN:EE OC character. My intention is to go all the way to the new Act V with this new character and then, when I have my Dream mastery where I want it, I'm thinking of 'dual-classing' to Nature mastery and trying the wolf companion skill tree, since I've never tried it before, and also, it seems to fit the 'frozen North, IWD-like' theme of the new expansion very well.Д¬omplicating matters is the fact that just as I learned about the new TQ expansion, Beamdog has released NWN:EE Head Start. I am just past Athens in Greece with a brand new Seer.

The expansion gives you the option to create a pre-leveled character and go straight into the new Act V, but that's not my style. That means I am having to start over with a new character and restart my collection from the ground up. Unfortunately, all my old saves and my vault collection were on an old computer that I don't have anymore. So, I've purchased the expansion and am currently playing.

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